Nice save on the Humber, the patina on the decals and headbadge is lovely. Hope you can preserve them. It also has side pull brakes which makesit much more useable than a bike with rod brakes.

What are the bits on the ALAN? It looks a bit like an early Chorus rear mech, but I could be wrong. If you look on the bottom bracket there is usually a serial number that gives an idea of the year. That red anodising with the silver lugs is a classic colour combination.

Nice save on the Humber, the patina on the decals and headbadge is lovely. Hope you can preserve them. It also has side pull brakes which makesit much more useable than a bike with rod brakes.

The Humber's tucked away in a nice dry environment so it won't deteriorate. A bit of an odd one having cable brakes so early as many Humber bikes manufactured lafter 1947 were still being produced with rod brakes. I do wonder if they were a special order.

Johnsqual wrote:

What are the bits on the ALAN? It looks a bit like an early Chorus rear mech, but I could be wrong. If you look on the bottom bracket there is usually a serial number that gives an idea of the year.

The date stamp is on the seat post tube and is 1080 which I take to be October 1980

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